Last week the HTC One -M8 went on sale in the UK in two new hues
- red
and pink. That said, there's another color version of the
handset that's
been leaked quite a few times so far but hasn't
managed to make it to
store shelves just yet: blue.
A render
showing it appeared in May, followed by this shade of the One
M8 going up for pre-order in the UK. Intriguingly though,
it hasn't
yet launched over there, and the aforementioned
pre-order page is no
longer accessible.

If you're wondering what may be going on here, the answer
might surprise
you. It turns out that the blue HTC One M8
will be an exclusive to
Three Ireland.
What you see above
is a shot of some kind of a promotional material from
said
operator, which proudly boasts that it will start selling the
new
color sometime before the end of August.
It's not out
of the ordinary for carriers to get exclusive colors, but
this
flyer seems to imply that the blue HTC One M8 won't be
available
anywhere else in Europe.